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Maintenance Operations, Research

New Clear Roads Research: Dashboards for Improving Winter Operations

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From Clear Roads, March 5, 2025

Transportation agencies collect vast amounts of data about their winter operations. Dashboards can help to summarize the information, measure performance, inform decision-making during winter weather events and improve planning for future storms.

This Clear Roads project examined the use of dashboards among transportation agencies to assess current strategies and identify innovative and effective practices. The results offer guidance to transportation agencies that are considering implementing or expanding their dashboard use to enhance winter maintenance operations.

Download the final report and two-page brief: CR 22-05 – Use of Dashboards for Winter Operations, December 2024.

Traffic and Safety

Improving Traffic Volume Estimates By Monitoring Health of Loop DetecTORS

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A newly developed system helps traffic engineers quickly spot failing loop detectors, which are used to monitor traffic volumes on Minnesota highways. The software program, developed by the University of Minnesota-Duluth for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, evaluates loop detector data and reports current loop detector health in an easy-to-read graphic format, making it easy to identify loop detectors in need of repair and which loop detectors should be used for the most accurate traffic counts.

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